Improvement in thimbles



G. H. FINGER.

THIMBLES.

Patented July 25. 187.6..

WITNESSES s TTDBIIEYS.

N. PETERS. PHOTO-LIYHDGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GILBERT H. FINGER, OF NEW YORK, Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN THIMBLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,215, dated July 25, 1876; application tiled May 1,1876.

To all whom it 'may concern.' Be it known that jI, yGILBERT H. FINGER, ot' the city, county, and State of' New York, have invented a new and Improved Thiinble, of' which the following is a specication:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section oi' one ot my improved thimbles. Fig. 2 isa side view of a modified form of the saine. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, taken through the linea: x, Fig. 2, and 'Fig'. et is alongitudinal section ot' another modin'ed i'orin ot' the saine.

The object of this invention is to furnish thimbles which shall be so constructed as to prevent the eye of the needle, while heilig used, from slipping from the thiinble, and injuring the fingers ot the operator, and. which shall he more convenient and effective-in use than thiinbles constructed in the usual way.-

The invention consists in thimbles made with concave tops, -in thiinbles made with concave surfaces, one or more, upon their sides, and in thirnbles in which the tops are made thicker than the sides, as hereinafter fully described. y

In the accompanying drawing, ligure A represents the body ot' the thimble, the top a1 of The tops of the thimbles are made thicker than the sides to prevent the said tops from wearing through so quickly, and to prevent` the nger ot'n the operator from being injured by the eye ot'- the needle passing in through said worn top.

Hav'mg'thus described my invention, what I claim as' new, and desire to secure by Letters Pate-nt, is-

A thiinble, having its top concaved and indented, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

'l GILBERT H. FINGER. Witnesses: i 'I J AMES T. GRAHAM T. B. MOSHER.' 

